Negro Traditions
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870499254 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Here are no banjo-plunking renditions of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"; these tales are full of the realities of life: violence, work, the power of the supernatural, family life, racial tension, and an intense burning resentment against slavery. From the Back Cover This collection of previously unpublished tales is a major contribution to the annals of African-American folk narrative. Negro Traditions offers wonderful descriptions of all manner of rural African-American folk customs, including valuable insights into post-Civil War life in rural Middle Tennessee - from riddles to dances - and how former slaves and their children felt about their lives. At times the movement of these tales toward tragedy is reminiscent of Faulkner; their humor suggests Sut Lovingood; their occasional dark surrealism has
His work helped popular music scholarship gain academic acceptance. Wolfe (1943-2006) was one of the leading experts on the history and development of country music. Until his retirement in 2005, he was an English professor at Middle Tennessee State University. . Charles K. He wrote or edited around twenty books, including "The Devil's Box: M
An almost lost and forgotten treasure Andre M. The folklore of Arican-Americans is a rich and wonderful subject, but until the rise of folks like Zora Neale Hurston and J. Mason Brewer in the 1930s, most educated Blacks were too scornful of their own folk culture to record it, thus it was up to white writers such as Joel Chandler Harris to preserve them, with varying results depending on the collector. As Talley himself mentions in the intro, few Blacks in those days were willing to be candid with the white compil
At times the movement of these tales toward tragedy is reminiscent of Faulkner; their humor suggests Sut Lovingood; their occasional dark surrealism has overtones of Cormac McCarthy. Negro Traditions offers wonderful descriptions of all manner of rural African-American folk customs, including valuable insights into post-Civil War life in rural Middle Tennessee - from riddles to dances - and how former slaves and their children felt about their lives. Ranging from fables to historical narratives, these tales contain a rich variety of information on folk customs, speech, and songs, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for nineteenth-century African-American culture. Here are no banjo-plunking renditions of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"; these tales are full of the realities of life: violence, work, the power of the supernatural, family life, racial tension, and an intense burning resentment against slavery.. But the overriding reality of these tales as a representation of a people and their culture gives them a power that moves the reader beyond fiction and into factuality. This collection of previously unpublished tal